S.Amdt. 236
What it does: Adds SEC. __. POINT OF ORDER REQUIRING THAT THE AMT BE DEALT WITH BEFORE OTHER TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY at the end of title IV
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)What it changes
1 change to S.Con.Res. 18 · shown in the resolution's text
Adds SEC. __. POINT OF ORDER REQUIRING THAT THE AMT BE DEALT WITH BEFORE OTHER TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY at the end of title IV
Adds a sectionIn S.Con.Res. 18 · Placed on Calendar Senate
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change those rules (so far as they relate to that house) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
Inserted: SEC. __. POINT OF ORDER REQUIRING THAT THE AMT BE DEALT WITH BEFORE OTHER TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY.
Inserted: (a) Point of Order in the Senate.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a bill, amendment, motion, joint resolution, or conference report that would cut taxes for taxpayers with annual adjusted gross incomes of greater than $285,000 unless that measure or a previously enacted measure permanently reduces the number of taxpayers and families with annual adjusted gross incomes of less than $150,000 that will be subject to the alternative minimum tax over the next decade.
Inserted: (b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.
Original wording
At the end of title IV, insert the following:
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As printed
SA 236. Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Mrs. Clinton) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 18, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2006 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2005 and 2007 through 2010; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of title IV, insert the following:
SEC. __. POINT OF ORDER REQUIRING THAT THE AMT BE DEALT WITH BEFORE OTHER TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY.
(a) Point of Order in the Senate.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a bill, amendment, motion, joint resolution, or conference report that would cut taxes for taxpayers with annual adjusted gross incomes of greater than $285,000 unless that measure or a previously enacted measure permanently reduces the number of taxpayers and families with annual adjusted gross incomes of less than $150,000 that will be subject to the alternative minimum tax over the next decade.
(b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.
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Senate amendment submitted
March 17, 2005